Tucson’s Empire High School’s 6-foot-8, 210-pound senior forward Deion James is coming off a strong junior season for himself, and is looking to build on last year’s success this season – his final season of his high school career. In preparation for his senior season, James is coming off a solid spring and summer where he gained valuable experience against stiff competition on the club circuit. While this fall will be a busy recruiting period for some top-rated prospects in the West, and, for several 2015 prospects in Arizona, the fall will be a time of signing a national letter…
Author: Anthony Ray
On Friday evening, the Super 80 Showcase, organized by Chad Groth, would kick-off a busy weekend of basketball in Arizona. With several big events taking place throughout the weekend, the Super 80 Showcase did not disappointe the coaches, scouts and media in attendance as numerous talented underclassman prospects, and some unknown future top-rated prospects in the state emerged on the night. Held on the campus of Arizona Christian University again, this year’s event backed up another exciting event last year at the same time. The idea is excellent by Groth, as college coaches are already in town to take part…
The state’s top two overall underclassman prospects in the state are two of the best prospects the state has ever seen – Perry High School’s 5-foot-10 sophomore guard Markus Howard (Arizona State commit) and Corona Del Sol High School’s 6-foot-10 superb incoming freshman Marvin Bagley Jr. These two prospects have already gained major national attention early, and both prospects will only continue to absolutely blow up over time. This weekend, both prospects traveled to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to take part in the USA Basketball Junior National Team mini-camp. The camp included each of the top overall prospects in America, and…
One of the elite prospects in the state of Arizona is Sunnyslope High School’s talented and high-scoring point guard prospect Sammy Thompkins. After an extremely impressive spring and summer performance for himself, Thompkins generated loads of college attention and scholarship offers. After mulling over his current recruiting options, Thompkins has decided to forgo the fall evaluation period, and move to signing during the late signing period. Thompkins currently has received a scholarship offers from Mississippi State, Rice, San Jose State University, Sam Houston, Cal Poly and UC-Davis. He is also receiving strong interest from such schools as Michigan, Oregon State, St. Johns,…
It has been a hard road to get back to the basketball court for Chaparral High School’s tough and hard-nosed 6-foot-5 senior forward Ryan Bayster. After suffering a torn ACL during his junior season, Bayster has worked extremely hard to get back to playing the sport he loves. He is now back and returned to compete in his first game of action on Friday evening in this year’s Super 80 Showcase event at Arizona Christian University. In the event, Bayster looked good, much like his old self, as he battled hard for rebounds and finished strong at the rim -…
One of the top prospects in Arizona’s 2015 class that many still do not know about is Arcadia High School’s gifted 6-foot-5 senior wing prospect Connor Nichols. Nichols is coming off an excellent junior season and also a good performance on the spring and summer club circuit. He now has his sights set on a strong senior season where he will look to work hard to lead his Arcadia Titans to a state title, while also looking to boost his college recruitment. Nichols is one of the best prospects in Arizona’s underrated 2015 class. He possesses a nice, fluid approach…
We complete our new Post Summer Player Rankings with our final release – the 2017 class post-summer player rankings for girls in the state of Arizona. This class is also very talented – led by some really talented girls prospects in the state that are high-major division-I college prospects, with many other prospects that will reach some level of college basketball. The 2017 class for girls in the state is still developing a great deal, but many prospects in the state have already emerged as nice college prospects. Leading the way for the class is Valley Vista High School’s talented and impressive 6-foot-2 sophomore post…
Brophy Prep High School’s skilled and heady 6-foot-1 senior point guard prospect Mason Zwillinger is among the top overall guard prospects in the state’s 2015 senior class. While an underrated guard prospect and also unknown to basketball enthusiasts in the state, Zwillinger is coming off an excellent showing for himself this summer – proving just has valuable as a player that he is. Zwillinger played this spring and summer for his club program, the Arizona Aces 17U team, and led helped lead the team to a very strong performance throughout the club season. Zwillinger and his talented group of underrated…
This past weekend, ArizonaVarsity and Southwest Showcase organized their annual All-Arizona Basketball Combine at Tempe High School, and the event was well attended and exciting as always. While I was unable to be there personally this weekend, due to a prior commitment, there were many top-rated basketball prospects in attendance from the 2016, 2017 & 2018 classes, and also many top performers from the event. One of my favorite events of the year. The combine brings together the state’s top basketball talent – measuring each athlete’s athletic ability with the vertical leap and broad jump. The dedicated Arizona Varsity staff…
With many scholarship offers on the horizon in the future, Basha High School’s rapidly-developing 6-foot-10junior post Devin Kirby is beginning to see his college recruitment begin to take off a great deal. While the big, high-major division-I offer has yet to develop, many college programs are looking to position themselves with the talented post prospect, as many division-I schools are now looking to extend scholarship offers. Kirby reeled in his first offer from Grand Canyon University this summer, as head coach Dan Majerle and his basketball staff emerged as the first program to express considerable interest. Since then, Kirby has…